Were I in the very depths of an Hieronymous Bosch inspired hell, Ann Widdicombe, would never, brighten up my Saturday nights.
Were I right up Everest, in the nude and on roller skates, the same applies.
Were I immersed in a vat of vomit infinitely deep, Ann Widdlecombe would not, brighten up my Saturday nights.
Should aliens visit me at night, to harvest my private bits, Ann would not, brighten up my Saturday nights.
The woman makes hari-kiri seem like an interesting hobby.

I wonder if the current voting system would have changed many of previous show results had it been in use then.

Agree Stockingfiller

Why else would we only have one dance in the quarter final and not two if that person were not still in.

So not a fan, then??


JJ (who also isn't)

Post of the day Or my morning at least.

Normally I'd resent a blatant thread bump.

But hey, it's my thread


Don't hold back, tell us what you mean

On the actual topic, I just checked Ladbrokes and the prices are now:
[LIST][*]Matt Baker: 6/5 [*]Scott Maslen: 10/3 [*]Kara Tointon: 7/2 [*]Ann Widdecombe:: 7/1 [*]Pamela Stephenson: 8/1 [*]Gavin Henson: 40/1[/LIST]
So the bookies still think the same as they thought a few days ago. Ann is unlikely to be in the final 3, although it's quite possible she'll knock Pamela out.

So, I guess over the next week, we'll see a further set of examples of manufactured hype, both online and in the media, with increasingly-desperate tones, trying to keep the Ann hopes alive.

I think I love you

Perhaps if you took off your blinkers you might start to enjoy the entertainment Ann and Anton provide us with every week, and lets hope it continues to the final, I want to see Ann and Anton flying.

They provide me with zero entertainment. In fact, minus zero entertainment as they continually put out people I enjoy more.

So, just how many Ann threads are you going to bump tonight? I noticed some of the recently bumped threads hadn't been posted on in 3 weeks. surely you can find some older than that?

The thing is though is that they are not dancing. <sigh> Explain to me please what is entertaining about Ann's so called performances.

Yeah...I'd like to see them flying too...

Preferably flying kicking and screaming out of the studio this weekend.

I know, perhaps someone could sneak a packet of balloons into the studio audience this week and secretly attach them to thier ankles so that they can fly away and not come back until the competition is over. (I love Anton I really do but I have no desire to see him fly in a final with Ann.)

This is a misconception, Ann and Anton are dancing and Ann is getting her dance steps right but the judges refuse to acknowledge this, which is not fair.

Still waiting, like you, to be told what's entertaining about his gurning and clowning and her plodding or being dragged round the floor like a sack of spuds. Mind you, at least a sack of spuds wouldn't argue and backchat to the judges...

Now as for entainment, perhaps she could re enact Dorothy clicking her heels, chanting "There's no place like home" and disappearing, never to return, in a hot air balloon. Result.

For a nano second, I wondered if in your chosen profession, you are well practised in the olde art of 'wind up'. I can go to the park, if I want to see things flying through the air. There are plenty of so@@ing squirrels about. The little beggars tend not to do ballroom dancing nor Latin, though - but then neither does Ann.
What approximately, is the percentage of anything recognisable as dancing, in the routines Ann does. Ok - let's take that as near zero. It is not beyond the brain of even a flying rodent, to know that the 'enertainment' provided by Ann is set in the context of ...wait for it...a programme about dancing. That context has been almost ignored.
Someone might come on next year and break wind to the tune of, ' Bolero'. . If enough people found that 'entertaining', it would still qualify to be called entertainment but the programme could no longer be called 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
Oh - blinkers ? No. I'm beginning to feel in need of a blindfold and one last ciggie, though.

Your comments are quite strange, I have seen kites flying in the park but but I have never seen a squirrel fly in this country. Ann and Antons dancing and the dance steps they perform correctly have had no recognition from the judges so far. Lets all hope that changes on Saturday, anyone who saw their training video yesterday on ITT could see that their routine was full of dance content including three lifts that they spoke about. I really wish I had blinkers on and missed the comments in your last paragraph. Why should you deny countless voting viewers the family entertainment and fun Ann and Anton provide on a Saturday evening, we need more clean family entertainment on our TV screens.

Is it just Ann and Anton providing the clean family entertainment?
Or is it the show as a whole - and if it is the show as a whole then the clean family entertainment remains even though Ann/Anton have been knocked out, surely?

Stomping around is not dancing. She may be putting her feet in the right places but she is failing to execute this with any flair or style which provides the essence of a dance.


Why are you so keen to deny countless voting viewers the family entertainment and fun of watching good and improving dancers?

BTW you still haven't answered Ms Conscreweds question about what it is you find so entertaining about Ann & Anton.

It's not just the judges, I haven't recognised any dance steps being forformed correctly either.

Surely the days of 'clean family entertainment' went out with the likes of Noel Edmunds. Surely you're not advocating a return to mindless pap in the name of Saturday night TV?

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales described cruelty humour as 'witless humour' and even Lenny Henry who I'm not a fan of has called for a return to family entertainment on a Saturday night. You may have missed Craig praising Ann on ITT tonight when he said,

"You have to admit she has got better"

It's a lonely life you lead, isn't it.

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what this means.

I notice Craig doesn't specify better at what. Better at being dragged around on the floor like a sack of spuds, perhaps, but them she's had a lot of practce. I haven't seen any improvement in dancing and certainly haven't seen her do any actual steps.

What's your area of expertise, classic ballroom or latin?

I am really loathe to quote you Terry but Lenny Henry has a so called light enterainment show on the BBC in the new year. He knows which side his bread is buttered on.

Ms Widdecombe doing the right steps in her routine does not a dance make.

I thought Craig was saying she has got better in as much as she is better at remembering her steps and does not look down quite so much.

She doesn't need to look down when she's on her bum being dragged around the floor.

True, though learning her steps and not looking down was something she should have managed 6 weeks ago.